Incoming White House counselor Kellyanne Conway made the Sunday show rounds today, making the point that Russia 'did not succeed' in tilting the presidential election in favor of her boss, President-elect Donald Trump.

'They did not succeed [in] embarrassing this country on the world stage. They did not succeed in throwing the election to Donald Trump,' Conway told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. 'That is very clear in this report and and I don't want your viewers to be left with any other impression.'

The impression the interview left with Trump, who signaled he was watching by commenting about it on Twitter, was that Conway's appearance was too short, as he whacked NBC for cutting her comments down.

'Kellyanne Conway went on Meet the Press this morning for an interview with Chuck Todd,' Trump tweeted. 'Dishonest media cut out 9 of her 10 minutes. Terrible!'

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Incoming White House counselor Kellyanne Conway argued this morning on Meet the Press that the Russians attempts to sway the election toward Donald Trump didn't succeed

President-elect Donald Trump took issue with the interview because it was cut down to only two questions. NBC later released a transcript of the whole thing

In the portion that aired Chuck Todd (left) asked Kellyanne Conway (right) if Donald Trump believed the intelligence community's takeaways and to explain how Trump plans to have a better relationship with Russia and potentially punish the country for the hacks

Conway also talked to CNN's Jake Tapper this morning.

Meet the Press aired answers from Conway to two of Todd's questions, while later releasing a full transcript of the back-and-forth.

Conway, smacking back at a CNN report that said Trump's team knew the interview would be edited for time, suggested she was angry about it because the incoming administration's point of view had been cut.

'We're not in the business of furnishing 10-minute Sunday show interviews so media can choose which "soundbite" to run,' Conway tweeted.

It's standard practice in both broadcast and print media to use only a source's best, or most newsworthy, quotes.

A spokesperson for NBC News has not responded to a request for comment.

Todd was trying to find out if Trump accepted the conclusions drawn by the U.S. intelligence community, which were that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an 'influence campaign' to sway the presidential election in favor of the Republican nominee.

Conway, in the clip broadcast on TV, pointed out that the report said the Russians 'aspired to' or 'attempted.'

The takeaway, she said, was that they didn't succeed.

'There is no evidence that Russia succeeded in any alleged attempt to disrupt our democracy or to influence the election results,' Conway said.

Todd pointed out to his panelists that this seemed to signal a 'tacit acceptance' of the intelligence community's conclusions. 'I feel as if they have moved a little bit,' Todd said.

NBC News' Andrea Mitchell replied and said Conway's statements may mean she's moved on the issue, but pointed out that the president-elect, in his tweets, suggest he hasn't accepted the report's findings.

'It was not an investigation into if they succeeded, the very attempt is the issue,' Mitchell also added.

In the original interview, Conway pivoted and went after the media.

'And respectfully, many in the mainstream media also tried to attempt to influence our election reports for Hillary Clinton. They too failed,' Conway told Todd.

Conway and Todd then engaged in a back and forth over how NBC News received details on the intelligence presented to President Obama on Russia before it was told to the president-elect.

Trump said Friday that he was going to tell the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees to launch an investigation.

'With all due respect, what's chilling there is this idea that if reporters doing their job, finding out information is somehow going to come under a congressional investigation?' Todd inserted.

Conway said 'it's not the reporters we're upset with, it's the leaking,' as she pointed out that White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest dodged the question on whether the administration was responsible for the leak.

'And I hope you support an investigation, because we can’t, we just can't have leaks of national security and intelligence information,' she told Todd.

'The other thing I just want to say about Senator McCain is I also saw in that hearing, he very specifically stated that there is not evidence that Russia succeeded in any alleged attempt to swing the election results,' she said pivoting. 'He said very clearly Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.'

Todd pushed back by asking if the Russians were successful because 'there is all this argument left and right about Russia's role.'

'They did not succeed because the election results were fair and square,' she said.

'Donald Trump is the president. It wasn't a squeaker. He got 36 more electoral votes than he needed originally. He won 31 of 50 states, 2,600 counties, he flipped 200 Obama counties, they're now Trump counties. The list goes on and on. He won states that Republicans hadn't won for years,' she said.

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Moving in on the media again, Conway again pointed out that 'nobody' says Russia succeeded in flipping the election toward Trump.

'Even outlets that are more in favor of Hillary Clinton and really were pushing for her election, particularly print outlets, are admitting today and this weekend Chuck, after this international briefing on Friday, that they aspired and they attempted,' she said.

From there on, Todd tried to pinpoint if the new administration believed Russia should be punished.

In the follow-up question that aired, Todd asked Conway to explain how Trump might pursue better relations with Russia, as he's expressed, but also make the country pay for the hacks.

Conway wouldn't commit to a punishment.

'I told you earlier and I'll repeat it now, he's not president yet,' Conway answered. 'All of you insist one president at a time, so, OK, one president at a time.'

'When he becomes president after January 20 and he meets with his security and intelligence team he as President Trump will make a decision on what to do,' she added.